Eucalyptus Systems

At its core, an AWS hybrid cloud is about enabling flexible, reliable and cost-effective IT infrastructure. Many organizations are now evaluating how they can mesh private and public resources into a setup that offers superior agility for development and testing, without raising (even lowering) total cost of ownership.

We have another great release, already 10 years over. I still remember the day I
read about Fedora for first time, I was still running RHL7.3, never upgraded
from there. Had some mixed reaction about the announcement, but, after trying
out Fedora Core 1, it was all fun.

I previously wrote about the big, Raspberry Pi-powered TV set at Eucalyptus HQ that displays the #eucalyptus-devel IRC channel so developers can always see what is going on and jump in if they need to. That setup has worked quite well for some time now, but I recently came up with a way to improve it:

At Eucalyptus, if one thing we care about it is the quality of the product. Our goal is to deliver an AWS compatible software that just works. To ensure the highest level of quality we try to follow the optimum strategy possible in both Development and in QA.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – December 12, 2013 – Eucalyptus Systems, the leading provider of open source software for building AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds, today announced that its cloud software is now available with Dell server, storage, and networking equipment as part of the Dell Technology Partner Program.

In the ideal world, compute power would be available everywhere for the application workloads we'd create. In that world, we would run our services on the public cloud, in data centers, in server rooms, under office desks, in connected devices and just about anywhere. We could choose to know and decide where our apps run, or we could choose not to care. We could optimize for convenience and we could optimize for control.

Many organizations are investing in the public cloud with the intent of saving money and boosting competitiveness. However, a recent survey conducted at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference found that IT managers and application developers still regard cost, performance, reliability, and security as the top concerns with using purely public infrastructure.

Why use a private cloud? Many IT managers have wrestled with this question as they modernize IT environments with an eye toward improving cost-effectiveness. There are several obstacles that have held back private cloud adoption, but they are addressable with better guidance. With company-wide support, private clouds and hybrid infrastructure can be front and center in application development and deployment strategies.

The FAT32 filesystem is the closest thing we have to a universal standard for passing data around, but with the capacity of modern USB flash drives its 4 GB file size limitation has become problematic. exFAT is a popular contender for dealing with that, but the patent issues that surround it make true portability a pipe dream at best.

Eucalyptus is an open source private cloud software platform that delivers AWS-compatibility, agility and affordability. We empower innovators, allowing you to develop and deploy software on your own servers as you do it on public clouds. We believe in a hybrid future, and therefore we enable application workload mobility between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and your own compute environment.

We have chosen a sharp and specific strategy in the world of infrastructure software. The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do. This blog outlines our strategic choices.